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An article that should not be ignored at any level of leadership – ‘Russia stepping up hybrid attacks, preparing for long standoff with West, Dutch intelligence warns‘. Whilst it talks to the current state of national Hybrid threats predominantly from Russia it has lessons for Organisations of any size operating in today’s digital threat landscape […]
February 27, 2026
As the market this week reacts to recent volatility in public cybersecurity stocks, many commentators are anchoring confidence in a familiar thesis: agentic AI expands the attack surface and therefore guarantees long-term growth for security vendors. It is appealing in its simplicity. It echoes every prior technology cycle, more software, more surface area, more risk, […]
February 23, 2026
Following my blog 2 weeks ago on ‘Cyber Tail risk‘, an interesting comment in response to the LinkedIn post for the blog spun off a side thread I felt worth tugging. To rebase the parallel theme I used in that earlier piece, before 2008, financial leaders were not short of warnings of what we now […]
February 21, 2026
In my experience, few organisations procure cybersecurity as a coherent service. They buy fragments of it. A detection platform here. A testing engagement there. A compliance assurance cycle to keep auditors quiet. Cyber becomes a shopping list of services and tools, each optimised in isolation but disconnected from how the organisation actually governs risk, makes […]
February 15, 2026
I have drawn parallels between finance and Cyber in pursuit of insights to risk and I lean on that once again following a discussion with a CEO of a financial services organisation on ‘tail risk’. I drew the picture that before 2008, banks believed their risk models, diversification, liquidity resilience strategies and controls were sufficient. […]
February 7, 2026
The weekend has started with some novel phenomenon being reported in the news, a social media site designed exclusively for AI agents. Yes you read that correctly, AI agents have their own social media platform, wetware permitted at their peril. Apparently we can expect platforms like Moltbook to go viral as thousands, nay millions of […]
February 1, 2026
To ban or not to ban, that is the question. Australia has lead the way with its ban on social media for under 16 year olds and opened minds to the detrimental impact of our poorly regulated digital society. Where the digital corporatocracy governs for commercial gain, through engineered distraction without boundaries, I believe they […]
January 28, 2026
Light-headed and sleep-deprived, sitting in Hong Kong (China) en-route to Osaka with three hours to kill, I found myself people-watching rather than sleeping. Around me was a familiar modern tableau, executives clutching the latest smartphones, a few stubborn laptops still in evidence, all of us quietly tethered to our digital lives. A question surfaced that […]
January 19, 2026
After years sitting with business leaders discussing cyber risk and supporting boards through the rollercoaster of incident responses, you start to notice patterns. Not technical ones human ones, that our minds quietly work against us, making cyber risk is as much about engineering around that as it is the technology and controls. Many of you […]
January 16, 2026
I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
January 10, 2026
Following the two age related posts I have recently done, notably ‘The Most Expensive Bias in Business …‘ and ‘Practical Insights into Activating Cognitive Superpowers‘, a repeated question that has come up is in pursuit of examples that bring to life the generic references I have made. To which end and none better a subject […]
January 3, 2026
In yesterdays Financial Times interview, AI pioneer Yann LeCun made waves by declaring that current large language models (LLMs) are a ‘dead end’ for achieving true machine intelligence, what he terms Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) rather than mere generative pattern completion. While LLMs like ChatGPT and META’s Llama have transformed search, writing and creative tooling, […]
January 2, 2026
As 2026 opens, many organisations will review their progress on culture, risk and resilience. Cyber security often appears in these discussions as a defined topic, important, well-documented and supported by policy. Yet experience continues to show, backed up by a long list of failures in 2025 by flagship organisations who should know better, that cyber […]
January 1, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR … The papers are full of the usual headline grabbing alarmism in the annual post mortem roll-up of opinions on the economy amongst other themes. For me areas of the social balance sheet that are being ignored include where Britons may be getting poorer include Privacy, Democracy and Justice. For the purposes […]
December 23, 2025
Following on from my last piece on Wasting Your Best Cognitive Assets, a challenge was presented in the form of, IF an aging population has such congestive ‘SuperPowers’, why are we not seeing it and recognising it spontaneously? A fair challenge perhaps, but the response can be summed up in a well coined phase – […]
February 28, 2026
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